Incident Command/Situational Awareness

Newscan: Turning bystanders into first responders in the mass-shooting era

Newscan: Turning bystanders into first responders in the mass-shooting era

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Turning bystanders into first responders: In the mass-shooting era, civilians must help each other in a crisis FirstNet partners with Mississippi medical center for telemedicine, rural emergency response Most law-enforcement agencies still operate manually in an increasingly digital world Medtronic’s implantable defibrillators vulnerable to life-threatening hacks Analysis: Trump […]

Texas Parks & Wildlife: Mike Mitchell contrasts communications demands, challenges in rural vs. urban settings

  Mike Mitchell, technology assistant commander game warden for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s law-enforcement division, explains some of the challenges his personnel faces in remote areas and difficult RF environments, including along the Texas-Mexico border. Despite these obstacles, Mitchell said his department is beginning to leverage mobile broadband applications and deployable solutions. Mitchell […]

MCOP: Fidel Liberal details MCPTT progress, remaining hurdles

  Fidel Liberal, coordinator of the Mission Critical Open Platform (MPOP), talks about the organization’s development platform and provides updates on some of the key issues associated with the mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard, including proximity services (ProSe), group calls via eMBMS, and latency factors–even when 5G connectivity is available. Liberal spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor […]

ITEC: Walt Magnussen recaps highlights of Winter Institute, outlines future plans for event

  Walt Magnussen, director of the Texas A&M University Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC), provides an overview of this week’s Winter Institute, which provides a real-world environment for first responders to “experiment” with cutting-edge communications in a real-world disaster-response scenario, and outlines goals for next January’s event. The Winter Institute is conducted at the Disaster […]

AT&T FirstNet highlights new EPTT features, future promise of MCPTT

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS—Push-to-talk services over the FirstNet system being built by AT&T already are being leveraged and more use cases are developing as the offering rapidly evolves toward a mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT)-compliant solution during the next few years, according to an AT&T FirstNet official. AT&T’s existing enhanced push-to-talk (EPTT) product—a carrier-integrated product provided by Kodiak, which […]
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